Voicethread for global cooperation

Voicethread is a great place for non-native speakers who are not prepared to talk in English but want to get natural language using input from native speakers and actually use the language when they are ready as well training their thinking in second language or foreign language at the same time. One value for global cooperation is that students can open their eyes and minds to see and hear other societies-- poor or rich, more equal or less, liberate or conservative, and other people's opinion-- what one has been going through in life bad or good, you'll always have somebody else share the same idea or don't. With these information and knowledge in mind, students not only will practice their language skills, improve communicative competence, but also they will learn how to be empathy, feeling for others, and think critically and creatively, all of which are essential qualities of being responsible residence on the earth. By sharing ideas, post pictures about people they've met and things they've been doing--things and people they are familiar with and thus have thoughts about, students will feel more confident and comfortable talking about it in languages other than their first language. Also, they have choice to post their comments either by typing or by recording--another reason that students will feel less burden to speak in another language.